ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14999, 5 October 1912, Page 10

ADDITIONAL CABLES.

The following cables appeared on September 25 and 26 in Australian papers employing the independent J ress cable service:— Landslides in ttoe Culebra Out are continuing to baffle the engineering experts at the Panama Canal. Millions of cubic yards of earth are becoming dislodged and falling into the canal. Senor Billinghurst has been installed President of Peru. The ceremony was the, occasion of a great civic demonstration, in which th.e poorest working classes chiefly took part. The newPresident was loudly applauded, but there were suspicious intervals in the demonstration which suggested an undercurrent of feeling against him. Senor Billinghurst is extremely popular with a large section of the people of Peru and Chile, a-nd it is hoped that his election will lead to a reconciliation of the differences existing between the two republics. Ho was born at Iquique, his father being an Englishman. Senor Bilhughurst is not the first man of British descent who has attained to a high place in tho political life of South America. Don Bernardo O'Higgins was one. of the first rulers of republican Chile, and his' name is still revered as being that of tho father of his country. In the last 20 years there has been a strong tide of emigration from _ Great Britain to the South American republics, and many of the principal citizens, particularly of Argentina, Peru, and Chile, bear British names. Signor Marconi, who was rather severely injured near Rome through his automobile colliding with another motor car, is reported to be improving. There is now happily no danger of his losing the sight of his light eve. It is rumored that Mr P. D. Monk Minister of Public Works in Canada' will retire from the Borden Cabinet, because he is unable to agree with his colleagnes on questions of naval policy. If Parliament does not accept the naval policy it is likely that Mr Borden will make an appeal to tho country. An Austrian cavalry officer' has perfected an invention which, if it fulfils all the advantages that are claimed for it, will be an incalculable boon to aviators. It is a parachute designed to enable airmen to descend from damaged aeroplanes in safety. Tho parachute is attached to the 'back of a belt worn round the aviator's waist, and in the event of accident all he has to do is to pull a cord, which explodes a cartridge and releases the invention. He is in that way lifted clear of the falling machine in a second or two. At the third annual meeting in London of the Empire Press Union, Mr Harry Lawson, son of Lord Burnham proprietor of the London 'Daily Telegraph,' occupied the chair. Australia was represented bv Colonel Reay (Melbourne ' Herald ') and Mr H. R. Deni- I son (chairman of directors of Sydney ! Sun '). The chairman, in his speech I of welcome to the delegates, said that i he considered that the union had ' achieved wonderful results in the recent reduction of the cable rates. Mr Dcnison predicted that the new rates would thoroughly justify their inauguration, adding that he was certain that within a short time there would be I another reduction to 6d a word. An official statement made bv the body of international bankers goes to I show that China was offered a loan of £60,000,000 on the conditions that the money was effectively speut on reorganisation, that control of the expen- ! drture should be guarded bv the ap- I poiutment of foreign auditors, and that there should be foreign supervision of the collection of the revenues. An additional demand was that the latter should be considered in the light of security, and should be pledged for that purpose. China claimed that the supervision of collection of her revenues was an infringement of her sovereign rights, and declined to make tTic arrangements asked. She has completed tho underwriting by private brokers in London of the first instalment of £.5,000,000 of a 5 per cent loan. .Mr W K. Hearst's New York magazine published a further hatch of i letters written to the Standard Oil' Company. In one letter Mr J. D. i Archbold, president of the company, is I invited to lunch with President Roose-1 volt, who, it is mentioned, wished to ! have a talk with him. Another and still more interesting letter is one in which Mr Archbold is asked for the loan of 1,000 dollars for a certain senator, " who would do anything for his friends." One of the largest individual land sales ever made in Canada has just been completed in British Columbia, where an area of 24,000 acres of mixed farming and dairying country in the vicinity of Fort George has been acquired by Lord Joicev". The purchase price was £90,000. I